David B. said:
"...poets will always be saddled with their selves... whatever tactics poet
will use they will always be the hosts for their questionable problematic
selves."
I couldn't agree more, David, (as I agree almost entirely with Alison's very
thoughtful post), and I don't see how you get anything to the contrary from
what I have said. Waht Pessoa did, thus enriching *his own* and *our*
"questionable, problematic selves" is to saddle new, utterly fascinating
poets with selves, selves who commented on the problematic selves of their
comrades and other "actually existing" (dead and living) poets, including
Pessoa himself. The vehicle (and you are right, as I think I clearly said,
that Pessoa's vehicle is only a hint and no "blueprint") creates a kind of
ontological chamber that makes poetry and life more various and complex and
interesting. That's the reason. Here's my important question: What's the
reason for feeling so resistant to the light peeking through the barely
opened door?
Now, one important qualification that both you and Alison bring up, and
which I want to think about more. I have, indeed, used "futural-progress"
type tropes in talking aobut the matter here and elsewhere, and I think I
want to think more about that and the assumptions behind using such figures.
So thank you to both you and Alison for htat.
Kent
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